Rabelais

Famous quotes containing the word rabelais:

“How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It’s only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Have no fear that the wine [of my book] will fail, like happened at the wedding feast of Canna in Galilee. As much as I draw from the tap, I will replace in the bunghole. In this way the barrel will remain inexhaustible.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Every married man is in danger of being cuckolded. Cuckoldry is naturally one of the prerogatives of marriage.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)